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There was a curious pastiche of a show at Constitution Hall, almost as confused as the war. Jimmy Stewart read a letter from the fatherless son of a Viet Nam casualty, Carol Lawrence recited The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and erstwhile Starlet Chris Noel recreated the Armed Forces Radio show she had broadcast to U.S. servicemen in Indochina during the 1960s. During intermission, retired General William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam from 1964 to 1968, signed autographs. The hardest working star was Wayne Newton, who flew in from Las Vegas and performed gratis...
Another committee member, Education School lectures Noel F. McGinn, said the main obstacle to taking a definitive action is the committee's desire to draw up a position the Corporation will take seriously...
...figure, and Volkswagen's share of the U.S. auto market stood at a meager 1.9%, well below the 5% won by the Beetle in the 1970s. In September, former General Motors Executive James McLernon resigned as president of Volkswagen of America and was replaced by Noel Phillips, a marketing executive from South Africa. With sales running far behind projections, the company has canceled plans to build cars at a second U.S. plant in Sterling Heights, Mich., and has put the $300 million facility, which it never used, up for sale...
...workshop on divestiture, Noel F. McGinn, a member of Harvard's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility called on Corporation members to take a public stand on nuclear arms...
...answer was a resounding no, and that wise gentleman-the selfsame Noel Coward-assured him that it was not he who was out of touch; it was the decade. And he was right, as he so often is in this wicked, witty and refreshingly sane volume of diaries. Much of the work he so archly deplored has already been forgotten, while his own plays continue to please and delight, as they probably will for as long as audiences enjoy laughing. Present Laughter (1942), with George C. Scott, is one of this year's Broadway hits, and just two weeks...